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In March, 1909, Mr. Treat married Mabel E. Merlan, of Rochester, New York, daughter of George M. and Carrie E. Merlan. By this marriage there have been two sons: 1. Mer- lan Jay, born in June, 1913. 2. Charles Dean, born in September, 1919.
JOHN W. SARPOLIS, M. D .- The younger group of professional men in Luzerne County have an able representative in Dr. John W. Sarpolis, well known medical practitioner at Glen Lyon, who has come rapidly to the front since he received his degree some ten years ago. Born in Wanamie of his native county, March 22, 1896, Dr. Sarpolis is the son of Peter and Elizabeth (Machalonis) Sarpolis, his father born in Russia, in 1865, is a mer- chant in Luzerne County, served as school director of Newport Township for two terms totaling ten years; the mother, born in Russia in 1870, died in November, 1920. John W. Sar- polis attended the public schools of his native village of Wanamie, inclusive of three years in the high school there. He next entered the Lake High School, Chicago, Illinois, from which he was graduated in 1914. He was now on the road to a college degree for which he had aimed when making choice of the medical profession. He took his pre-medical course at Loyola University, Chicago, and then matriculated at Loyola Medical College, from which he was graduated in the class of 1919 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. His interneship was served at the Robert Burns Hospital, Chicago, where he was stationed for twenty-two months.
Dr. Sarpolis entered upon actual practice in his own name at Chicago, where he re- mained for two years. Then he returned to his native borough of Wanamie and gave of his skillful and sympathetic ministrations to his own people for four years, in the mean- while developing into one of the best-known physicians of the community and county. In 1926 he felt that he had received a call to the larger and more important field of Glen Lyon and transferred his practice to that village, where he has since labored most efficiently, growing in the favor and popularity of the people there. Further proof of his standing in the county is had in the fact of his having been elected a member of the auxiliary staff of Nanticoke Hospital. His professional quali- fications could have no better attest than arises from his selection as a member of the American Medical Association, Pennsylvania State Medical Society and Luzerne County Medical Society. In his politics he throws his strength to the candidates and policies of the
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Republican party, of which he is a loyally enthusiastic member.
Dr. John W. Sarpolis married, in May. 1921, Hazel Clutter, of Springfield, Illinois, daugh- ter of Archibald and Laura Clutter, and they are the parents of a son, John Bennett, born in October, 1922.
HOWARD ALLEN STULL-In 1921 Howard A. Stull formed a partnership with his brother, Willard S. Stull, and together they opened the Stull Brothers motorcycle and battery business at Nos. 15-17 Union Street in Kingston. The business has steadily and rapidly grown under consistent good man- agement and the brothers' conscientious ap- plication to their work until now it employs nine people.
Mr. Stull was born June 3, 1900, at Court- dale, the son of Samuel L. and Anna (Wil- liams) Stull. The mother, who was born at Luzerne, died January 14, 1914. The father, who was born at Springbrook, is a black- smith and, helping his father about the forge and anvil, the elder son early developed a knack for handling metals and wood that has stood him in good stead in the work he has made his vocation. After attendance of the Courtdale public schools and graduation from the Larksville High School, Mr. Stull associ- ated himself with an automobile accessories concern where he remained four years, learn- ing the business which he planned to enter. He then formed the partnership with his hrother. The concern is distributor for the Indian Motorcycles in Luzerne County and does a general repair business, handling motorcycles, batteries, auto tires and motor boats ( Indian). Mr. Stull is a member of Kingston Lodge, No. 395, Free and Accepted Masons; Caldwell Consistory, Ancient Ac- cepted Scottish Rite, and Irem Temple, An- cient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He is a Republican and holds mem- bership in Snyder Council, Junior Order United American Mechanics.
On March 29, 1923, Mr. Stull married Nellie Tinklepaugh, of Hanlocks Creek, daughter of Harry and Catharine (Craugle) Tinkle- paugh. They have one daughter, Betty Jane, born November 23, 1924.
WILLARD SAMUEL STULL has, with his brother, Howard A. Stull (see accompanying biography), built up a thriving motorcycle and battery business, since 1921, and they are located at Nos. 15-17 Union Street in King- ston. Although both brothers are still under thirty, they have made notable accomplish- ments in their work and their business is looked upon as an outstanding success.
Born at Courtdale, Luzerne County, June 21, 1902, Mr. Stull is the son of Samuel L. Stull, born at Springbrook, and Anna ( Wil- liams) Stull, born at Luzerne, died January 14, 1914. The father is a blacksmith and in his shop the sons at an early age developed their taste for and ability to handle machin- ery. The subject of this sketch attended the public schools of Courtdale and Luzerne and upon completion of his Luzerne High School course, spent four years working with a local automobile accessory house. In 1921 he and his brother, Howard Allen Stull, formed a partnership to operate their own shop. Stull Brothers are distributors for the Indian Motorcycles in Luzerne County and have their own shop for general repair business. They are also distributors for the U. S. L. Bat- teries. Willard Samuel Stull is a Scottish Rite Mason and member of the Shrine. He belongs to Kingston Lodge, No. 935, Free
and Accepted Masons; the Caldwell Con- sistory, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, and Irem Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He is a member of the Junior Order United American Mechanics and is Republican in his political faith.
Mr. Stull married, October 15, 1923, Althea H. Lyons, daughter of Harvey and Bessie Lyons of Kingston. They have two sons: 1. Dean L., born November 11, 1924. 2. Wayne A., born April 15, 1927.
CHARLES B. D. WOOD-President, man- ager and founder of the Pressed Steel Com- pany, Charles B. D. Wood has been a figure of prominence in financial and industrial circles of the Wilkes-Barre area through a score of years. As head of this large organization he contributes directly to the prosperity of the people in contact with it as workers, and to the general communal whole indirectly, through bringing money into the market. He is widely known in the industry as a man of talent, and in the city of Wilkes-Barre, and in Kingston, where he makes his residence, is looked upon as a constructive force of value to civic, economic and social enterprises. He supports all worthy projects designed for the public benefit.
Mr. Wood was born in Wilkes-Barre, July 25, 1884, son of John Gore and Emmaline E. (Drake) Wood. His father was also a native of this community, born in 1838, died in March, 1903. He engaged for many years as a manufacturer of paper, and as a realtor. Em- maline E. (Drake) Wood was born in Wilkes- Barre in 1847, and died in 1890.
After he had secured his elementary and secondary academic instruction in the pub- lic schools of Wilkes-Barre, Mr. Wood ma- triculated in Wyoming Seminary, frem which he graduated with the class of 1904. Next he studied at Cornell University. On November 17, 1909, he founded the Pressed Steel Com- pany, for the manufacture of metal products and pressed steel shapes. He was president from the outset of operations, and to him, in major share, is due the prosperity and aug- mented business of the organization. It em- ploys between fifty and sixty workers the year 'round on an average. The plant, repre- senting the best to be seen for work of this special category, was built especially for the company under Mr. Wood's direction. All kinds of pressed steel products are turned out today, with emphasis on specialties, there he- ing a large number of special dies for a num- ber of great contracts. Stainless steel serv- ing trays, for example, are one product. Five thousand tons of steel are used annually. Be- sides Mr. Wood, other officers of the corpora- tion are: W. C. Boyd (q. v.), treasurer and sec- retary, and S. W. Rort, vice-president. Jos- eph H. MacVeigh (q. v.), who has been with the company since 1917, is sales manager.
Actively interested in general affairs, Mr. Wood is a Republican, loyal supporter of the party's principles. Fraternally he is affiliated with Kingston Lodge, No. 395, Free and Ac- cepted Masons; Caldwell Consistory, at Bloomsburg, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite: Irem Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine; and belongs to the West- moreland Club and Wyoming Valley Country Club. He is a communicant of the Methodist Episcopal Church, assists in the work of the denomination, and gives liberally to all charitable causes which come to his atten- tion. During the World War he put his plant to work as the Government wished, offering the full scope of its resources to the common cause, and was of valued aid in the several
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campaigns of patriotic appeal. He is a· direc- tor of the Kingston Bank and Trust Company.
Mr. Wood marrled, in 1908, Florence A. Newell, of Kingston, daughter of I. L. and Mary (Edwards) Newell. Their children are: Theodore N., Mary Eleanor, Margaret E., Mary Edwards, Augustin Newell, and Ruth Newell. The family residence in Kingston is at No. 840 Market Street. Mr. Wood's offices in the Pressed Steel Company are on North Pennsylvania Avenue, Wilkes-Barre.
JOSEPHI H. MacVEIGH-Sales manager of the Pressed Steel Company, Joseph H. Mac- Veigh has contributed greatly to the success of this great organization, and, through it, to the development of the Wilkes-Barre area. He is one of the city's well known men.
Mr. MacVeigh was born January 28, 1887, at Covington, Kentucky, son of Peter and Carrie Lee (Handlan) MacVeigh. His father was born in Covington, 1860, and survives to the present time (1928), having spent many years as coffee broker in St. Louis, Missouri. His mother was born at Wheeling, West Vir- ginia, in 1862, and she too survives.
Mr. MacVeigh attended the public schools of St. Paul, Minnesota, matriculated in the University of Minnesota, and from it was graduated, 1907, with the degree of Civil En- gineer. For two years thereafter he was identified with railroad building in Alabama, for a coal company. Then he was employed by the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company, with offices at Birmingham, Ala- bama, for five years, as construction engineer. Next, for three years, he was with the Bir- mingham Railway, Light, Hcat and Power Company as construction engineer, was trans- ferred to New York City as industrial engi- neer for the United Gas and Electric Corpo- ration, and in 1917 came to the Pressed Steel Company as sales manager. He has been with this organization through the years that have followed.
Active in general affairs and particularly in those that touch engineering and business as applied to steel, Mr. MacVeigh is a mem- ber of several engineering societies, the Wyo- ming Valley Country Club, and is affiliated with Lodge No. 61, Free and Accepted Ma- sons, Caldwell Consistory at Bloomsburg of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, and Irem Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He is a communicant of the Presbyterian Church.
Mr. MacVeigh married, in 1910, Charlotte Warman, of Cullman, Alabama, daughter of Cyrus and Ida Warman. They reside at No. 376 Ridge Avenue, Kingston.
BENJAMIN H. RIIYS-In the Wilkes-Barre Exide Company of Nos. 28-30 East Ross Street, of which he is sole owner and propri- etor, Benjamin H. Rhys has developed, in a comparatively few years, a thriving business that places him among the more successful of the city's business men. However, he does not spend all his time in his battery and repair shop but devotes much energy to dis- charging the duties of his public offices and taking part in the activities of the numerous organizations of which he is a member. Tak- ing over the office that had been filled for six years by his father, Mr. Rhys became tax col- lector of the borough of Warrior Run, in which he makes his home at No. 374 Chestnut Street, eighteen years ago, and in the period since has faithfully made the stipulated col- lections. On May 1, 1928, he acquired in addi- tion to this office that of deputy county comp- troller, serving under Harry I. Butts. To all
his work for the people Mr. Rhys gives the same conscientious attention that he devotes to his own private affairs.
Mr. Rhys was born in Warrior Run, Lu- zerne County, September 4, 1888, the son of Welsh parents. His father, Thomas H. Rhys, a miner, was born in 1855, died in July, 1911, and his mother, Elizabeth (Jones) Rhys, is still living. After he had completed the pub- lic school courses Mr. Rhys entered the busi- ness world as a clerical worker, then spent twelve years as teller for the Wyoming Val- ley Trust Company. It was in March, 1925, that he established his garage husiness on Ross Street. Here, with the aid of three em- ployees, he handles Exide batteries and does a general automobile repair business. Mr. Rhys is Republican in his political affiliations and, as stated previously, has served as tax collector for nearly two decades, and also as deputy county comptroller. He is a member of Ashley Lodge, No. 474, Free and Accepted Masons: Shekinah Chapter, Royal Arch Ma- sons; Dieu le Veut Commandery No. 45, Knights Templar; lrem Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine; the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and Junior Order United American Mechanics. He also holds membership in the Wyoming Val- ley Country Club and the Craftsman's Club. Mr. Rhys is a member of the Welsh Presby- terian Church of Warrior Run.
In October, 1915, Mr. Rhys married Cora Jones, daughter of William E. and Elizabeth (Lewis) Jones, of Warrior Run. They became the parents of two children: Cora Elizabeth, born in July, 1917, and Ruth Janet, born in September, 1920.
WILLIAM B. RICHARDS-Prominently iden- tified with the building business of the Wyo- mning Valley for years, William B. Richards, of Wilkes-Barre, is one of our most reputable citizens and holds a very dignified position in the commercial world of Pennsylvania. Skilled in carpentry and general building, he is also known as a keen minded business operator, at all times intent upon giving full value for work accomplished, and demanding of others reciprocal treatment. There exists in busi- ness life certain high codes of ethics based upon fairness and cooperation for mutual benefit. Mr. Richards not only understands this but operates upon such lines and by so conducting his enterprises has won the ad- miration and esteem of all with whom he has made contact during his career. He is a man of sociable nature and has made a host of friends in and out of his working world, is deeply interested in the good of the people and at all times holds himself ready to lend his aid in any public activities which may be promulgated for the general benefit. Such are the qualifications of a good citizen, which is a title to which he is fully deserving.
He was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsyl- vania, January 28, 1886, a son of Edward Richards, also a native of this city, where he was born in 1856, and where he operated as a painting contractor, and of Clara (Boehl- mer) Richards, who was born in Hazleton, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, in 1855. Ed- ward Richards died in February, 1908.
Their son, William B. Richards, was edu- cated in the local public schools and then engaged in the practical study of carpentry, following that trade for a number of years and then establishing himself in the business of general contract building. He has special- ized in the erection of stores and schools, having constructed several of each, among them being the Liberty Bank building, the
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Kresge store and others. He employs an average of seventy men. In politics he is a Republican and in religion a Lutheran. He belongs to Lodge No. 109, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and to the Franklin and Craftsman's clubs. Fraternally he is affiliated with Lodge No. 442, Free and Ac- cepted Masons; Shekinah Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Dieu le Veut Commandery, No. 45, Knights Templar, and Irem Temple, An- cient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine.
William B. Richards married, in June, 1913, Anna Grosehke, of Wilkes-Barre, daughter of August and Wilhelmina Grosehke. Their children are: I. Marion E., born in January, 1915. 2. Edward William, born in April, 1916. 3. Dorothy M., born in May, 1917. 4. Arthur E., born in August, 1921.
HORACE H. SCHOSER-Engaged in the contracting business in one of the essential branches of the construction trade, heating and plumbing, Mr. Schoser has become one of the stable figures of commercial Kingston. A native Pennsylvanian, he was born in Philadelphia on October 26, 1883, a son of Vincent and Anna (Nicholas) Schoser. His father was born in Germany and settled at Riverton, New Jersey, as a shoe manufacturer. His mother was born in Illinois.
After attending the public schools at Riv- erton, where the family was then living, Horace H. Schoser entered Spencerian Busi- ness College in Philadelphia and, subse- quently, learned the technical trade of heat- ing and plumbing. He was employed in Phila- delphia in his trade for about five years and then returned to Riverton and engaged in work at that place. In 1906, he came to Kingston and worked for a local concern for nearly two years and then was placed in charge of all of the outside work for the Lu- zerne County Gas and Electric Company, with plant at Mahanoy City. Always improv- ing his position and adding to his responsi- bilities in the work with each change, he then went to Berwick and finally back to Kingston, where he started in business for himself, under his own firm name. The busi- ness has prospered and he has fulfilled the contracts for heating and plumbing of many public buildings, notably the Miners Bank Building at Wilkes-Barre, the Dime Bank Building at the same place, the Nanticoke High School and the Georgetown school building. Mr. Schoser is a loyal citizen and at all times holds the interests of his com- munity at heart and serves them in his pub- lic dealings with the civic government, to its best advantage. He is a member of the Patri- otic Order Sons of America, the Kingston Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fel- lows, and a regular attendant of the Meth- odist Episcopal Church. Mr. Schoser is a keen hunter and fisherman and has a re- markably fine kennel of thoroughbred setters, and is an authority on the raising and breed- ing of this attractive type of dog.
Horace H. Schoser was married, in 1905, to Blanche Paddock, daughter of George E. and Vargie (Prince) Paddock, of Kingston. Mr. Paddock is a well-known glass manufacturer. Mr. and Mrs. Schoser have four children: 1. Grace Margaret, who has married a Mr. Pec- cone of Kingston. 2. Ruth Evelyn, who at- tends the Westchester Normal School, pre- paratory to taking up the vocation of teach- ing. 3. Donald Paddock. 4. Virginia Elizabeth.
JOSEPH F. BRYANT-Identified with the commercial and fraternal life of Luzerne for many years, Joseph F. Bryant is numbered
among the community's citizens of most loyal public enterprise. His record is one to inspire respect, comprising as it does a replete suc- cess at all endeavors, and commencing to- ward the close of the last century, when Mr. Bryant first went to work as a boy in the mines. From that beginning he has come to be one of the well-known figures of Luzerne County.
Mr. Bryant was born at Edwardsville, Penn-' sylvania, September 23, 1882, a son of Conn and Margaret ( Williams) Bryant. His father, who was horn in Wales, in 1847, was a miner, and plied that occupation after coming to the coal fields of Pennsylvania. His death oc- curred in 1910. Margaret (Williams) Bryant was also a native of Wales. She was born in 1848, and died in June, 1922.
Fortune was good to Mr. Bryant in that it gave him a good home, a sufficient course in school upon which to base higher and inde- pendent technical studies, and early experi- ence which taught him the value of well di- rected effort and tenacity of purpose. As re- lated, he went to work in the mines while a lad, then engaged in the electrical trade, as employee. In 1911 he started in the electrical contracting business under his own name, in Luzerne, and as such a contractor has con- tinued with augmented success through the years succeeding. As a rule he employs two assistants, and his offices at No. 55 Evans Street, Luzerne, transact a sizable volume of trade annually.
While business has engaged the principal course of effort and has taken the greater part of his time, Mr. Bryant has none the less been active in the community's general af- fairs. A Republican, he supports the candi- dates and principles of the party, and since 1911 has been a director of Pringle Borough School Board. He is interested in diverse financial enterprises, having been a director of the Merchants and Miners Bank since its foundation. Fraternally he is perhaps miost known in the Free and Accepted Masons, and a member of Lodge No. 395, in this order; of Kingston Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Dieu le Veut Commandery, Knights Templar, of Wilkes-Barre; and Irem Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. Further, he is affiliated with the Patriotic Order Sons of America, the Junior Order United American Mechanics, Order of Eagles, and Lodge No. 109, of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. During the World War Mr. Bryant subscribed liberally to all patriotic campaigns. He is a communicant of the Welsh Congregational Church.
Mr. Bryant married, in 1902, Phoebe A. Morgan, of Pringle Borough, daughter of Philip and Ann Morgan. They have one daughter, Anna A., born September 5, 1904, graduate of Bloomsburg State Normal School, also a graduate of Marywood College, Scran- ton, Pennsylvania, having received her de- gree B. S. of Education, in June, 1929; now a teacher in Pringle Borough.
REV. JOHN SZABO, born in Vulsinka, County Ung, Hungary, April 15, 1861, received his early training in his native country in the college and seminary, and was ordained a priest in the Greek Catholic Church, 1886. After six years of work as pastor he came to the United States, arriving July 4, 1892. He proceeded to Hazleton, where he visited his friend, the Rev. Eugene Volkay. In gratitude to the Lord for his safe passage across the sea, and for meeting once more persons of his native land, he said a Mass in thanks. It followed that he removed to Trenton, New Jersey, to organize a parish
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of the Greek Catholic faith, remained there two years thus engaged, and afterward went to Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, where he spent eight years in organizing various parishes throughout the State. In 1898, at Brockwayville Court, Jefferson County, he be- came a naturalized citizen. During the years 1901-07 he was pastor of St. John's Church, 712 Carson Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, then went to Toronto, Eastern Ohio, where he had charge of St. Joseph's Church for eight years, from where he was transferred to Duquesne, Pennsylvania. He established Greek Catholic societies and congregations in Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, and has carried on this work as far to the south as Alabama, to St. Louis, Missouri, and to Den- ver, Colorado. Following this protracted period as organizer in the church, he returned to Western Pennsylvania, worked in and around Pittsburgh, and in February, 1927, was assigned by Right Reverend Bishop Basil Takacs to Hazleton. Since that month and year he has been pastor of St. Mary's Greek Catholic Church, Hazleton. Here he is in charge of a large number of parishioners, at the head of one of the most historic church organizations in the Nation, largely composed of persons whose origin and family origin was in Hungary and Galicia, now Podkar- patska Rus in Czecho-Slovakia. About 1875 many of these people immigrated, and, landed in New York, found that satisfactory employ- ment could be obtained in the mining dis- tricts around Hazleton. Here their migra- tions ceased, until in later days many removed still farther to the West. Rev. Father Szabo is at the head of an important parish com- posed of some two hundred families and more than one thousand souls. He is known for his kindly leadership of his people, and for his constructive interest in the promotion of Hazleton's general welfare.
Rev. Father John Szabo married, in 1886, Amelia Danilovics, the oldest daughter of seven children of a Greek Catholic Priest, Father Nikolay Danilovics, in Hungary. Of this union were born eight children: 1. The Rev. Father Nicholas, pastor of the Hungarian Magyar Church, at Homestead. 2. Jolan, wife of the Rev. Father Constantine Roskovics, who is a director of the Greek Catholic Or- phanage, at Elmhurst, Pennsylvania. 3. Alexius, an artist of New York City. 4. Den- nis, a physician in the United States Public Health Service. 5. Irene, wife of the Rev. Father George Chegin, pastor of St. Michael's Church, Donora. 6. Magdalina, wife of George Puhak, attorney, of Hazleton. 7. John, graduate at law, Georgetown Catholic University, Washington, District of Colum- bus. 8. One deceased.
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